Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:10:42 -0500 From: Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Subject: backup msdos slice Message-ID: <20090302191042.GA56989@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Hi, I hate to start this potential storm, but... I have a machine with both an MS and FreeBSD slices on it. I can easily back up and recover the FreeBSD slices using dump(8)/restore(8) But, that won't work for the MS slice (which happens to be FAT32 on this machine) because there is no superblock and inode structure. So, what I would like is something that would dump the MS slice to a FreeBSD file or media written in the FreeBSD world and that I could then pick out files and directories somewhat like I do using restore on a dump file. I suspect that tar might not keep enough meta information to be right for this job. Is that a valid concern? Recovered files should still work in MS-Win. Is there anything worthwhile out there that can do this and not go through some the rigamarole that some MS backup systems seem to want to put one through? Basically, I want to back up the MSDOS slice (I know MS calls it a primary partition) from the FreeBSD side of things. I can read and write the slice nicely from FreeBSD, but not dump/restore. I would appreciate any suggestions. ////jerry
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